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Volume 28, Number 1 Fall 2014
Sociology of Emotions American Sociological Association
Content 1-‐3 From the Chair’s Desk
3 Section Officers
Social Media Report
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From the Chair’s Desk Linda Francis Welcome to the Fall 2014 Sociology of Emotions Section Newsletter! It was great to see so many of you at the ASA meetings in August, and a pleasure to see the impressive vibrancy of our section continuing! We had really terrific sessions, one showcasing new directions in research, and the Chair’s hour highlighting international research in our field. I particularly enjoyed meeting our colleagues from TASA, The Australian Sociological Association in their section on Emotions and Affect, and I hope we can continue our collegial efforts in future meetings.
We also had some wonderful submissions to our awards committees. Our section is blessed to have so many talented new and established members producing such exciting work! I want to take this opportunity to thank all the committee members, as well as the past Chair, Jody Clay-Warner, for their dedication and hard work that made this all happen.
I would like to begin this year’s first newsletter with a brief report on the state of the Section. Membership is holding relatively steady at 263 members currently, compared to 275 at this time last year. This is down by about 5%, but most sections are at least slightly down this year, and many have much steeper declines than we.
Nonetheless, as a small section, we can ill afford to lose members. If you have been attending our Business Meetings, you know that the skyrocketing cost of hotel receptions is rapidly sending small sections into fragile financial states, and making even large sections wince. As you can tell from a quick perusal of the Treasurer’s Report later in this newsletter, the reception in San Francisco put a huge hole in our section finances, especially with our decline in membership this year.
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Mission The ASA Section on Sociology of Emotions brings together social and behavioral scientists in order to promote the general development of the study of emotions through the exchange of ideas, theory, research, and teaching. Scholars from a variety of backgrounds are members of this section, and collectively encourage the study of emotions in everyday social life. Substantive topics of investigation include: the expression and experience of emotions, emotions in social interaction, identity and emotions, emotions in historical perspective, the cross-cultural study of emotions, emotions and violence, and the traditions of theory and research in the area of emotions.
Visit us online https://research.franklin.uga.edu/EmotionsSection/ Join the conversation on Facebook & Twitter @SocEmotions
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Data Set of Interest -‐ GDELT
New Publication: Labors of Love New Publication: Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions Volume II
Secretary/Treasurer Report Section Award Nominations
Recent Publications
New Publication: Moral Wages
Call for Contributions
2014-‐15 Section Committees
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Goffman’s Insight – T. Scheff
Recent Graduate Profile: Marci D. Cottingham, PhD
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From the Chair’s Desk Continued
Reception costs (with the exception of 2011 in Las Vegas) have been steadily rising, to the point that a reception at the same price next year could put us into financial insolvency. In response to this, the Council voted to pursue an offsite reception for 2015, understanding that otherwise we may not get a reception at all. But more on this later.
Maintaining membership is therefore key not only to maintaining our sessions, but also our financial resources. Of course, the main source of lost membership is members who do not renew. Whether due to changing interests or financial exigency, I had always assumed that such nonrenewal was intentional. I was surprised to find out that some nonrenewal appears to be inadvertent. Last summer at the ASAs I reached out to several people at various Emotions-related sessions and events, asking them if they would be willing participate in committees and Section governance this year. Most agreed without hesitation. However, to my surprise – and to theirs – a few of them did not show up on my membership list. Despite volunteering, therefore, these inadvertent non-renewers were ineligible to accept my invitation. With this in mind, I would like to urge everyone to make sure that the Emotions Section Box is checked when you renew your ASA membership. It is easy just to scroll through quickly and not verify. Granted, I am preaching to the choir here; by definition, if you are receiving this newsletter than you are current. But remind your colleagues and Emotions compatriots to check their section selections when they renew!
While you are reminding them of this, you can also bring up what an amazing deal the Emotions Section is. Not only are we one of the least expensive sections, but we offer a great return on that small investment. As a small section, we offer great opportunities to get involved in the governance of our section. In any one year, nearly ten percent of our regular membership is required to staff all of our committees and officer positions; it is the loyalty and enthusiasm of our members that makes these spots possible to fill. Section work is a great piece of service to the profession, and an unparalleled chance to meet and network with your colleagues in the field. If you are interested in getting involved in Section governance, please let me or your Council and committee members know!
This year in particular, your membership in the Section gets you an extra perk in what we hope will be a fabulous reception! For the 2015 ASA meetings, the Emotions Section is teaming up with our old friend the Social Psychology Section and our new one, the Section on Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity for an exciting joint reception at a new location. We have arranged to hold our first off-site reception at a bar next to the Palmer House Hotel. Even though the cost to the three sections will be about 1/3 of the reception bill in San Francisco, we will have much more to offer! Bring your appetites, there will be plenty of food, and the first hundred section members through the door receive a voucher for a free glass of wine or beer! The reception will be at The Bar Below, right next door to the Palmer House, on Sunday night of the meetings, from 7:00-9:00pm. I will send out a reminder on the listserv with more details next summer.
Plans for the 2015 ASA meetings in Chicago are well underway. Martha Copp of East Tennessee State University will be organizing our section paper session, entitled “Emotions and Social Worlds.” Papers for this session should be submitted through the ASA online portal, which will open on December 5th. I will also be continuing the tradition of an invited “Chair’s Hour,” which will be held just before the section business meeting. Our section sessions and business meeting will be held on Monday, August 24th, which is our section day. The Social Psychology Section has generously allowed us to continue to co-sponsor their roundtable session. As a result, there will be thematic tables organized around sociology of emotion topics. This is an excellent venue for graduate students to present their work (or for anyone who prefers a less formal setting). Make your plans now to attend these section events.
As always, we have our season of awards nominations coming up as well. This year we will be choosing recipients for three awards. This year we will be choosing candidates for the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Sociology of Emotions. The deadline for nominations for this award is February 1st. Each year our Recent Contribution Award Committee chooses the best published contribution to the Sociology of Emotions, alternating years between books and articles. This year’s committee will be considering articles published within the past three years. Finally, the Graduate Student Paper Award is given out annually, and has a submission deadline of March 1, 2015. Please read the Calls for Nominations for these awards later in this newsletter for more details. Continued page 3
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@SocEmotions currently has 1,688 followers on Twitter. Twitter remains a space where we share new publications, announcements and other materials for anyone interested in the Sociology of Emotions.
The “Sociology of Emotions Section American Sociological Association” Facebook page currently has 714 followers. Facebook posts include recent publications, calls for papers, section announcements and provides a forum
for dialogue.
Emotions Section Officers
Section Officers
Past Chair Jody Clay-Warner University of Georgia [email protected]
Chair Linda Francis Cleveland State University [email protected]
Chair Elect Karen Hetvedt Emory University [email protected]
Council Ellen Granberg Clemson University [email protected]
Amy Kroska University of Oklahoma [email protected] Alicia D. Cast University of California, Santa Barbara [email protected]
Matt Andersson University of Iowa [email protected]
Newsletter & Social Media Jessica Leveto Kent State University, Ashtabula [email protected] Webmaster Jun Zhao University of Georgia [email protected]
Secretary-Treasurer Shane Sharp Northern Illinois University [email protected]
From the Chair’s Desk Continued
Finally, our election ballot this year will be fairly short. We will only need to choose a Chair-Elect (who serves a 1-yr term before becoming Chair the following year); one Council member (for a 3-yr term); and one Student member of Council (for a 1-yr term). Please volunteer to be a nominee!
Enjoy the rest of the newsletter! As always, thanks go out to Jessica Leveto, our newsletter editor and director of social media for doing such a wonderful job. Do not forget to “like” us on Facebook, and “follow” us on Twitter! Best wishes for the rest of the fall and winter!
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Data Set of Interest – The GDELT Project The Global Database of
Society
Supported by Google Ideas, the GDELT Project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the
people, locations, organizations, counts, themes, sources, and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world. All 540,000 hours of English-‐language American television broadcasts held by the Internet Archive's Television News Archive were processed to extract the complete list of people, organizations, disambiguated locations, and more than 2,238 emotions and themes from each broadcast. The complete dataset (only the extracted metadata, not the broadcasts themselves) is available for download, along with an interactive viewer timeline that allows you to visualize a particular emotion or theme over the last four years of American television news. http://www.gdeltproject.org
Labors of Love: Nursing Homes and the Structures of Care Work Jason Rodriguez NYU Press
Every day for the next twenty years, more than 10,000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of these Americans will eventually require round-‐the-‐clock attention—and we have only begun to prepare for the challenge of caring for them. In Labors of Love, Jason Rodriquez examines the world of the fast-‐growing elder care industry, providing a nuanced and balanced portrait of the day-‐to-‐
day lives of the people and organizations that devote their time to supporting America’s aging population. Through extensive ethnographic research, interviews with staff and management, and analysis of internal documents, Rodriquez explores the inner workings of two different nursing homes—one for-‐profit and one non-‐profit—to understand the connections among the administrative regulations, the professional requirements, and the type of care provided in both types of facilities. He reveals a variety of challenges that nursing home care workers face day to day: battles over the budget; the administrative hurdles of Medicaid and Medicare; the employees’ struggle to balance financial stability and compassionate care for residents. Yet, Rodriquez argues, nursing home workers give meaning and dignity to their work by building emotional attachments to residents and their care. An unprecedented study, Labors of Love brings new insight into the underlying structures of a crucial and expanding sector of the American health care system.
Congratulations Leslie Irvine Leslie Irvine was promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Secretary/Treasurer Report –as of 9/30/14
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Membership count
Pre-‐ASA 252 258 255 267 253 Post-‐ASA 262 269 269 275 263 Income 2137 1593 1688 1638 1675 Dues 252 259 322 110 250
Section allocation 1397 1334 2005 1528 1425 Additional (i.e., royalties and prior year 4th quarter dues) 488 84 300 0 0
Expenses 2031 1532 2044 3139 2566 Reception and Council meeting 1401 936 1511 2154 2233
Awards 630 596 533 377 333 December Balance 3197 3731 3378 3405 1804
Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions Volume II Editors: Jan E. Stets & Jonathan H. Turner
Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions Volume II presents all new chapters in the ever-‐developing area of the sociology of emotions. The volume is divided into two sections: Theoretical Perspectives and Social Arenas of Emotions. It reviews major sociological theories on emotions, which include evolutionary theory, identity theory, affect control theory, social exchange theory, ritual theory, and cultural theory among others. Social arenas where emotions are examined include, but are not limited to, the economy and the workplace, the family, mental health, crime, sports, technology, social movements, and the field of science. All the chapters review the major theories and research in the area, and each chapter ends with some discussion of directions for future research. The Sociology of Emotions is a fast growing and vital field in the broad discipline of Sociology. This volume II follows the Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions that was first published in 2006. In 2008, this first handbook received the
“Outstanding Recent Contribution” in the Emotions Section of the American Sociological Association. With contributions from leading scholars from different areas in the discipline, such as neurosociology, culture, economics, mental health, gender, social movements, discussing state-‐of-‐art theory and research on emotions in sociology this volume will generate wider appeal to the sociological community.
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Seeking Award Nominations Lifetime Achievement Award
Nominations are being sought for outstanding scholars in the field of the sociology of emotions. The recipient must be a member of the Sociology of Emotions section and have a record of several years of scholarly work (books and/or articles) of exceptional merit that has developed and extended the sociology of emotions empirically, theoretically, or methodologically.
Send nominations to Kathryn Lively Kathryn J. Lively ([email protected]).
Deadline for submissions is February 1, 2015.
Recent Contribution Award Nominations are being sought for the most outstanding journal article published in the last three years that advances the sociology of emotions empirically, theoretically, and/or methodologically. The recipient must be a member of the Sociology of Emotions section.
To submit a nomination, please send a PDF file of the article to Sarah Harkness (sarah-‐[email protected]).
Deadline for submissions is February 15, 2015.
Graduate Student Paper Award Nominations are being sought for the most outstanding, article-‐length graduate student paper that contributes to the sociology of emotions empirically, theoretically, and/or methodologically. Authors of eligible papers must be graduate students at the time of the paper's submission. Multiple-‐authored papers are eligible for the award if all authors are graduate students.
To submit a nomination, please send a PDF file of the paper to Heather Scheuerman ([email protected]).
Deadline for submissions is March 1, 2014.
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Abrutyn, Seth. 2015 (Forthcoming). "Pollution-‐Purification Rituals, Collective Memory, and Religious Evolution: How Cultural Trauma Shaped Ancient Israel." American Journal of Cultural Sociology 3(1).
Abrutyn, Seth, and Michael J. Carter. 2014. "The Decline in Shared Collective Conscience as Found in the Shifting Norms and Values of Etiquette Manuals." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour.
Abrutyn, Seth, and Anna S. Mueller. 2014. "Are Suicidal Behaviors Contagious? Using Longitudinal Data to Examine Suicide Suggestion." American Sociological Review 79(2):211-‐27.
—. 2014. "Reconsidering Durkheim’s Assessment of Tarde: Formalizing a Tardian Theory of Imitation, Contagion, and Suicide Suggestion." Sociological Forum 29(3):698-‐719.
—. 2014 (Forthcoming). "The Socioemotional Foundations of Suicide: A Microsociological View of Durkheim's Suicide." Sociological Theory 32(4).
Cottingham, Marci D., Rebecca J. Erickson, and James M. Diefendorff. Forthcoming. “Examining Men’s coming Status Shield and Status Bonus: How Gender Frames the Emotional Labor and Job Satisfaction of Nurses.” Sex Roles
Cottingham, Marci D. Forthcoming. “Learning to ‘Deal’ and ‘De-‐Escalate’: How Men in Nursing Manage Their Own and Patient Emotions.” Sociological Inquiry
Moral Wages: The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim Advocacy and Counseling Ken Kolb University of California Press, 2014
Moral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on over a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research on the topic of violence against women. Instead of focusing on the victims or perpetrators of abuse, Moral Wages focuses exclusively on the service providers in the middle. It shows how victim advocates and counselors—who don't enjoy extrinsic benefits like pay, power, and prestige—are sustained by a different kind of compensation. As long as they can overcome a number of workplace dilemmas, they earn a special type of emotional reward reserved for those who help others in need: moral wages. As their struggles mount, though, it becomes clear that their jobs often put them in impossible situations—requiring them to aid and feel for vulnerable clients, yet giving them few and feeble tools to combat a persistent social problem.
Summers-‐Effler, Erika, Justin Van Ness, and Christopher Hausmann. (2014). "Peeking in the Black Box: Studying, Theorizing, and Representing the Micro-‐Foundations of Day-‐to-‐Day Interactions" Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
Recent Articles
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Call for Contributions The Sociology of Emotions seeks the following: • Upcoming conferences, calls for papers, special issues of journals or grant opportunities • Information related to conferences that would be of interest to section members. • Profiles of graduate students who are on the job market. • Titles of new or forthcoming books or articles that would be of interest to section members • ”What's On Your Bookshelf?" -‐ A short description of three books that have been influential to you • Photos from recent conferences. • Updates on issues that are relevant to the Sociology of Emotion • Online resources relevant to Sociology of Emotions (Blogs or other relevant electronic resources) If you have other relevant materials please let us know, I am happy to make a space for new and innovative contributions and contributors!
Send to Newsletter Editor Jessica Leveto [email protected]
Outstanding Recent Contribution Sarah Harkness, Chair
Kenneth Kolb Will Kalkhoff
Graduate Student Paper Heather Scheueman, Chair
Andreas Schneider Mary Gallagher
Nomination Committee Lauren Rivera, Chair
Pamela Kirk Leslie Irvine
Norman Goodman Gretchen Peterson
2014-‐2015 Section Committees Life Time Achievement
Kathryn Lively, Chair Douglas Schrock Rebecca Erickson
Publications Committee
Jessica Leveto (Chair) Linda Francis
Program Committee Linda Francis (chair’s hour)
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Goffman’s Insight By Thomas Scheff
When I was Goffman’s TA in Berkeley I noticed that most of his lectures were taken up with concrete examples. The students seemed to love them, but I was puzzled: what are they examples OF? More specifically, I looked for an instance where he related a large number of his examples to a single abstract idea or proposition.
Reading his books raised this same question for me, particularly his most popular one: Presentation of Self (1959). I could see that this whole book was organized around a single metaphor of dramaturgy: people are actors on the stage of life, mostly concerned with the impression they are
making on others. But why?
After many years of searching the book, I found a sentence that seemed to answer my question:
There is no interaction in which participants do not take an appreciable chance of being slightly embarrassed or a slight chance of being deeply humiliated. (1959, p. 243).
This statement occurs only in passing toward the end of the book. It asserts unmistakably that ALL interaction carries the risk of embarrassment/humiliation. This generalization helps explain not only Chapter 6 (Impression Management), but the whole book. The reason we spend such time and care managing our impressions, (our appearance, talk, lifestyle, and so on) Goffman suggests, is to avoid shame in the form of embarrassment or humiliation as best we can. Perhaps he hit upon this proposition when reading his own book, after the fact, so to speak. “Aha, that’s what all those examples that I recorded were about!”
Another possibility: he was shrewd enough to avoid putting off possible readers by the glumness of his diagnosis. For example, suppose the title he chose has been: Presentation of Self to Avoid Shame. The use of the s-‐word these days is at least as taboo as the f-‐word, or maybe more. Instead of being one of the most popular sociology books ever written, it might have vanished into the oblivion inhabited by most scholarly books, particularly those that use the s-‐word openly.
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Marci D. Cottingham, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina -‐ Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Men Who Care: How Organizations and Individuals Negotiate Masculinity, Emotional Capital, and Emotion Practice in Nursing
Chair: Rebecca J. Erickson Areas of Specialization: Medical Sociology, Health Care Workforce, Social Psychology, Sociology of Emotion, Gender, Inequalities, Qualitative Research Methods Website: http://unc.academia.edu/MarciCottingham Email: [email protected] Marci Cottingham is an NIH postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of
Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She recently received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Akron. Her dissertation research focuses on the emotional labor of men in nursing and the ways in which individual men and nursing/healthcare organizations reconcile masculinity with a caring profession. Drawing on data from in-‐depth interviews, audio diaries, and recruitment materials aimed at attracting men to the profession, the study addresses gender negotiation at the individual and organizational levels. The study’s results advance our understanding of the mobilization of masculinities as a gendering practice at the organizational level and the ongoing contradictions that men entering a caring profession confront. Her work has received awards from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Sociology of Emotions section of the American Sociological Association, and the Alpha Kappa Delta honor society. One of her dissertation chapters was recently published in Gender & Society.